Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), September 2015

by: antoviaque
text: REMOTE OK. OpenCraft - Open Source developer on Open edX (Worldwide, company based in France)<p>Consultancy specialized on the edX project, and hiring to handle increasing demand. edX is a free software project, used by various universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, class.stanford.edu, france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr for examples of edX instances.<p>It&#x27;s a large Python&#x2F;Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list&#x2F;references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups &amp; universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing custom features for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing instances, developing generic platform features, deploying instances, working on both client&#x2F;server sides, etc.<p>A large part of your work would be published as free software (edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing some of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.<p>You would be able to work remotely from where you want, as long as you have a good internet connexion. : )<p>Stack: Python&#x2F;Django, Ansible, AWS, Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu, JS, HTML&#x2F;CSS, MySQL, MongoDB<p>Applying: Email jobs@opencraft.com with: your github account, a short explanation of why you&#x27;re interested and a list of links to free software contributions you have made.

by: bvmatt
text: BoardVitals | Ruby &amp; Javascript Developers | New York, NY or Remote<p>BoardVitals is a education technology startup with a focus on healthcare. Our product helps physicians prepare for medical boards by bringing together content from major publishers, universities, and top healthcare professionals to create the largest training ecosystem in medicine. We are seeking long term contractors to help build out features and scale our infrastructure.<p>As a distributed team, remote &#x2F; offshore candidates are more than welcome.<p>Tech Stack: Rails, Angular, Postgres, Heroku<p>Email resume, online profiles (e.g. GitHub), rates, and availability to matt@boardvitals.com

by: haliax
text: REMOTE (New York City)<p>Looking for up to three freelancers:<p>One with Android&#x2F;Java experience, to help me take a prototype Android app to market readiness. The work is a mix of refactoring (cleaning up code, extracting some hardcoded functionality into a general and reusable set of classes) and implementing new features.<p>One with NLP experience, to help build out information extraction models. You&#x27;re a good fit if you understand what a CRF is and how you might it.<p>A UX designer with experience on mobile and an understanding of both the aesthetics and the usability constraints involved, to revamp the look of my app.<p>Contact me for details: hnfl@silverfiresoftware.com

by: kidsil
text: REMOTE (preferably East Europe due to Timezones)<p>I&#x27;m looking for a solid system administrator that has worked extensively with Chef, Docker, Vagrant and the likes.<p>Bonus for admins who worked with scaling infrastructure (1K nodes, 10K nodes, etc.)<p>Contact me at: jobs@kidsil.net

by: oshmanm
text: Remote or New York<p>Looking for a Swift&#x2F;iOS developer for a short-term project on a third-party keyboard.<p>E-mail: michael.oshman@gmail.com